List of Famous people born on November 23rd

General The Rt Hon. Ralph Gore, 1st Earl of Ross, known as Sir Ralph Gore, 6th Baronet, from 1746 until 1764, subsequently as The Baron Gore until 1768, and then as The Viscount Belleisle until 1772, was an Anglo-Irish soldier, politician and peer.

Walter Biggar Blaikie FRSE DL LLD was a Scottish civil engineer, printer, historian and astronomer.

Richard William Kazmaier Jr. was an American football player for Princeton University from 1949 through 1951 and winner of the 1951 Heisman Trophy, Maxwell Award, and was the AP athlete of the year.

Robert Towne is an American screenwriter, producer, director and actor. He was part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking. He is best known for his Academy Award-winning original screenplay for Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1974), which is widely considered one of the greatest screenplays ever written. He later said it was inspired by a chapter in Carey McWilliams's Southern California Country: An Island on the Land (1946) and a West magazine article on Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles. Towne also wrote the sequel, The Two Jakes (1990); the Hal Ashby comedy-dramas The Last Detail (1973) and Shampoo (1975); and the first two Mission: Impossible films.

Johannes Diderik van der Waals was a Dutch theoretical physicist and thermodynamicist famous for his pioneering work on the equation of state for gases and liquids. Van der Waals started his career as a school teacher. He became the first physics professor of the University of Amsterdam when in 1877 the old Athenaeum was upgraded to Municipal University. Van der Waals won the 1910 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids.

Aldo Montano was an Italian fencer. He won a silver medal in the team sabre event at the 1936 and 1948 Summer Olympics. His son, Mario Aldo Montano, and grandson Aldo Montano, also competed at the Olympic Games for Italy as fencers.

Bernard Foccroulle is a Belgian organist, composer, conductor and opera director. He was born in Liège and studied at the Conservatoire de Liège. Initially, he became known as a member of the Ricercar Consort. He was president of the Jeunesses musicales, and in 1992, he was named director of the Théâtre royal de la Monnaie.